Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Date
July 11, 2022
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Philosophy
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Physicist: Why the “Alien Simulation” Hypothesis Is Bunk

Science & Culture
July 11, 2022
Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Assuming that the regression does not continue endlessly, only the First Simulator is real. But then, why do any simulators even bother? Read More ›
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March 11, 2022
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Astrophysicists Battle over Whether the Multiverse Must Exist

Science & Culture
March 11, 2022
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics
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"If cosmic inflation and quantum field theory are both correct, then the Multiverse arises as an inevitable consequence of the two." Read More ›
Marcelo Gleiser
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Michael Egnor
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January 19, 2022
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Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

Michael Egnor
January 19, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›
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Brian Miller
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November 8, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Again Desperately Attempts to Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

Brian Miller
November 8, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences
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If the model were plausible, the level of fine-tuning would represent even greater evidence of design than it was intended to avoid by removing the beginning. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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January 29, 2020
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Origin of Life
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Physics
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Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion

David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2020
Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
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ethics
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David Klinghoffer
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December 5, 2017
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A New Low for Evolutionary Ethics

David Klinghoffer
December 5, 2017
Bioethics, Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Philosophy
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Understand that Big Think is not an obscure web journal by and for a lunatic fringe. Read More ›

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